Monthly Archives: February 2017

Android users have been exposed to a new malicious app imitating Adobe Flash Player that serves as a potential entrance for many types of dangerous malware. The application, detected by ESET security software as Android/TrojanDownloader.Agent.JI, tricks its victims into granting…

SAN CARLOS, Calif., Feb. 08, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Check Point® Software Technologies Ltd. (CHKP) has revealed that Hummingbad has been overtaken as the leading mobile malware for the first time since February 2016, according to the new January Global…

Credit: Malwarebytes The internet security company Malwarebytes just released its “State of Malware” report for the latter half of 2016. Highlights about individual malware threats are presented in this article. Information about the world-wide distribution of malware can be found in…

SophosLabs has released a malware forecast to coincide with the start of RSA Conference 2017. Typically, our research papers focus on Windows, which has traditionally been the largest battleground. While some of the report does indeed look at Microsoft-specific challenges,…

Update (February 23rd): Following ESET’s notice, the hosting company took the CC server down. The new Android banking malware ESET recently discovered on Google Play was spotted in the wild again, targeting more banks. Further investigation of this resurfacing threat…

In 2016, the number of malicious installation packages hit more than 8.5 million—three times more than the year before, according to a report on mobile malware evolution from Kaspersky Lab, released on Tuesday. The firm registered nearly 40 million attacks…

Many Android anti-malware apps in Google’s Play Store are written by amateurs and offer little or no protection against security threats, a large test of security products has found. Researchers from independent testing lab AV Comparatives downloaded 110 anti-malware apps…

There’s a new top mobile malware threat in town. Image: iStock It’s taken a whole year for it to be dislodged, but Hummingbad has finally been overtaken as the leading form of mobile malware. The Hummingbad Android malware is still…

Less than a month after ZTE pushed out the Android 7.0 Nougat update to its Axon 7 smartphone, the device has started getting the Android 7.1 update. Rolling out over the air, and arriving as software version ZTE_A2017V1.1.0B09, the update…

A new utility page acts as a central hub for Arrow Launcher 3.0’s work- and productivity-enhancing features. Microsoft has released Arrow Launcher 3.0, the launcher app for Android released by Microsoft Garage, the company’s experimental app division. Like other launcher…